But the Bible Is a Story

A review of Roberto Calasso's "The Book of All Books"

Roberto Calasso’s writing is, at its best, propulsive. At its worst, it’s performative, inconsequential, wandering, and meaningless.

But it’s better to attain the heights Calasso was able to, even if that means writing so much nonsense.

So in The Book of All Books, one can skip the chapter on Freud. That makes it better than The Celestial Hunter. Perhaps…